You’re never know with this European commission, perhaps they would change their mind, but one could perhaps say carefully that one of the collaborative project I’m in got granted.

Its terrifying name is Infernos, that should be understood as Information, Fluctuations, and Energy Control in Small Systems. Our team opt to manufacture Maxwell daemons, and consist of the groups from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, France, NL and US.

This gives me an opportunity to start looking for a post-doc, 2 years position. My part of the reseach is theoretical and concerns non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum information flows: please apply if interested in these subjects. Most likely, you would be able to start in February 2013 if in a hurry.

has presented the results of his bachelor eindproject on Monday, Aug
20, 11:00. The project with some interruptions lasted from March. It was in the field of nanomechanics where we wanted to understand better the interpaly between torsion and bending in the oscillations of carbon nanotube resonators.

He impressed us with his presentation that had some elaborated structure
and provoked deep and provocative questions: given the fact that it was
perhaps the first presentation of a kind in his life. During the closed
part of the defence, he answered quickly and correctly on my classic
question about the rainbow, a question no master student could answer
without substantial hints. With this, and his persistence and enthusiasm
during the project time no wonder he got a pretty good mark. After this, he said he enjoyed time spent in our group: perhaps he was sincere.

We show theoretically the possibility of quantum synchronization of Josephson and Bloch oscillations in a superconducting device. One needs an LC oscillator to achieve exponentially small rate of synchronization errors. The synchronization leads to quantization of transresistance similar to that in (Fractional) Quantum Hall Effect.